Without Mercy Quotes

“Nazi Party gained power in Germany in 1933, they immediately embraced eugenics and forced sterilization, inspired by the U.S. movement and using it as a model.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Robert Kennedy called the DeKalb County judge, demanding to know why King could not be released on bond. Nixon never called. “I had known Nixon longer,” King wrote. “He had been supposedly close to me and he would call me frequently about things, seeking advice. And yet when this moment came, it was like he had never heard of me.”6 King was released a day after the Kennedy call. After his release from prison, King publicly thanked John Kennedy, and King’s father switched his endorsement from Nixon to Kennedy, marking a political shift as blacks”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“The time King spent at Tattnall Prison would change political history. It was the fall of 1960 and John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were locked in a tight battle for the presidency.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Poverty breeds prejudice, hatreds, discontent,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Robert Burns, author of the book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for forced sterilization in 1927 by upholding the state of Virginia’s program. The case centered on the forced sterilization of a white woman”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Tattnall from 1937 to 1941 shows no white bodies were donated for cadaver use during those five years while fifty-three black corpses were taken. Racial discrimination seemed to have no end, even after death.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“lottery,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“pellagra, a”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Ed Rivers,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“supporting the Republican, Herbert Hoover.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Evans.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“law that would prohibit marriage unless the would-be bride and groom had first been certified by medical authorities as being physically fit to have children?”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Mer Rouge,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Imperial Palace.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Lanier University”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Reconstruction,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Birth of a Nation”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Hiram Wesley Evans”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“swainsona,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Oglethorpe University,”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

“Lakeland.”
― David Beasley, Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South